Usually means: Attracts both water and lipids.
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  1. amphiphilic: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. amphiphilic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. amphiphilic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. amphiphilic: Collins English Dictionary
  5. amphiphilic: Wiktionary
  6. amphiphilic: Dictionary.com
  7. Amphiphilic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. amphiphilic: Dictionary/thesaurus
  9. amphiphilic: Merriam-Webster.com

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  1. amphiphilic: Encyclopedia

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  2. amphiphilic: Medical dictionary

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  1. amphiphilic: PHYSICAL ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

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Definitions from Wiktionary (amphiphilic)

adjective:  (chemistry, of a molecule) Being a detergent: having both hydrophilic and hydrophobic (or lipophilic) groups.
adjective:  (biochemistry, of a protein, especially an alpha helix) Having one surface consisting of hydrophilic amino acids and the opposite surface consisting of hydrophobic (or lipophilic) ones.

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